Flight & Hotel OTAs · India · The CITE Index

AI search visibility for flight & hotel otas brands in India

Name: Flight & Hotel OTAs · The CITE Index · India
Creator: Cite Solutions
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The brands ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode recommend when an Indian buyer asks an unaided question. Updated nightly. Every claim links back to the verbatim engine answer that produced it.

Brands tracked

09

Editions to date

61

Engines

03

Open today's edition21 Jul 2026 →Booking.com led Flight & Hotel OTAs, cited in 86.5% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of MakeMyTrip at 71.4%.

The Daily Fixing

3 engines · live

ChatGPT#1 today

Booking.com

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

Gemini#1 today

Booking.com

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

AI Mode#1 today

Booking.com

0.0%

■0.0% vs prev

Timeline · 61 editions

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Previously on The CITE Index

3 prior chapters

Editor's note

21 July 2026 · 21:00 IST

Cite Solutions Research

Booking.com led Flight & Hotel OTAs, cited in 86.5% of this edition's tracked answers, ahead of MakeMyTrip at 71.4%.

The move

Across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Mode, Booking.com appeared in 86.5% of tracked answers for this category, with MakeMyTrip at 71.4% and Goibibo at 48.4%.

What it means

This edition is part of the completed CITE Index dataset: 90,132 engine answers collected daily from May 19 to July 21, 2026.

Collection has concluded; the aggregate findings are published in the final report.

What moved this — the receipts

5 cited

Booking.com
Growing citationChatGPT
9 → 12 cites (+3) on CHATGPT
tlife style / travel / news / indigos new lite fare makes flying cheaper how cabitimesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/travel/news/indigos-new-lite-fare-makes-flying-cheaper-how-cabin-bag-only-tickets-will-benefit-millions-of-travellers/articleshow/132134098.cms
EaseMyTrip
Growing citationChatGPT
5 → 9 cites (+4) on CHATGPT
ewiki / MakeMyTripen.wikipedia.org/wiki/MakeMyTrip
Booking.com
New citationChatGPT
2 new cites today, primary on CHATGPT
itrends / top 10 hotel booking platforms in 2026inventiva.co.in/trends/top-10-hotel-booking-platforms-in-2026
Booking.com
New citationChatGPT
1 new cites today, primary on CHATGPT
gflight couponsgrabon.in/flight-coupons
Booking.com
New citationChatGPT
1 new cites today, primary on CHATGPT
kflightskayak.co.in/flights

Trajectory · top 5

61 days

Share of voice (%)

Brand position map

Rank × mentions · per engine

9 brands

Top-left = high mentions, top rank. Bottom-right = high mentions but lower rank — coverage exists but the model isn't placing the brand first.

Engine divergence

All three agree on #1

All three engines name the same #1 brand today (Booking.com). When this happens, the brand is structurally winning across retrieval surfaces.

Today's metrics

Today's leader

Booking.com

86.5% share of voice across all engines

Biggest mover

Goibibo

+10.4% on the day

ChatGPT leader

MakeMyTrip

66.7% on ChatGPT only

Engine gaps

1

brands invisible on 1 engine

Per-engine verdict

ChatGPT

Today's winner

Booking.com

83.3% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

Gemini

Today's winner

Booking.com

85.7% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

AI Mode

Today's winner

Booking.com

90.5% share of voice on this engine

Top 3 here

Full lineup

9 brands · 3 engines

#BrandSoV1-day Δ3-day

Mentions

01

Booking.com86.5%▲3.2%

0%#999

109

02

MakeMyTrip71.4%▼1.3%

66.7%#2

69%#2

78.6%#2

90

03

Goibibo48.4%▲10.4%

45.2%#3

54.8%#3

45.2%#3

61

04

ixigo38.9%▼2.4%

38.1%#4

42.9%#4

35.7%#5

49

05

EaseMyTrip32.5%▲1.2%

26.2%#5

33.3%#5

38.1%#4

41

06

Yatra21.4%▼3.9%

16.7%#8

14.3%#7

33.3%#6

27

07

Agoda21.4%▲3.4%

19%#7

28.6%#6

16.7%#7

27

08

OYO11.9%▲4.6%

4.8%#9

14.3%#8

16.7%#8

15

09

Cleartrip10.3%▼2.4%

26.2%#6

2.4%#9

13

Head-to-head

Who AI recommends more

Booking.comvsMakeMyTrip

Booking.comvsGoibibo

Booking.comvsixigo

Booking.comvsEaseMyTrip

MakeMyTripvsGoibibo

MakeMyTripvsixigo

MakeMyTripvsEaseMyTrip

Goibibovsixigo

GoibibovsEaseMyTrip

ixigovsEaseMyTrip

Source pool

Hover for engine split

0 domains

DomainCitesEngine splitLead

Sentiment composition

PositiveNeutralCautiousNegative

Booking.com67/28/3/2

MakeMyTrip58/38/3/1

Goibibo66/34/0/0

ixigo53/43/4/0

EaseMyTrip46/49/2/2

Yatra41/56/4/0

Agoda67/33/0/0

Engine fan-out queries

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

No fan-out queries surfaced today.

Prompts run today

50 of 50 · full responses on the edition

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Who runs this index

The CITE Index is built and published daily by Cite Solutions, a managed GEO agency, using the same measurement pipeline we run for client brands. If you want to know how your own brand shows up when buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Mode about flight & hotel otas or any other category, run an AI visibility audit and get the same per-prompt receipts you see on this page.